Ao ajudar o meu irmão a escolher os seus possíveis destinos de ERASMUS dei com uma certa dificuldade em encontrar rankings de faculdades europeias. No final acabei por encontras três, produzidos por diferentes entidades:

No conjunto das três listagens ví uma única referência a uma faculdade portuguesa, mas se isso quer dizer falta de exaustão ou falta de isenção já não sei dizer.

Para ver a primeira lista que referi é necessário fazer um registo, por isso deixo de seguida um resumo da lista completa.

2005 2004 Nome País
1 1 Harvard University US
2 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
3 6 Cambridge University UK
4 5 Oxford University UK
5 7 Stanford University US
6 2 University of California, Berkeley US
7 8 Yale University US
8 4 California Institute of Technology US
9 9 Princeton University US
10 27 Ecole Polytechnique France
11= 52 Duke University US
11= 11 London School of Economics UK
13 14 Imperial College London UK
14 23 Cornell University US
15 17 Beijing University China
16 12 Tokyo University Japan
17= 20 University of California, San Francisco US
17= 13 University of Chicago US
19 22 Melbourne University Australia
20 19 Columbia University US
21 10 ETH Zurich Switzerland
22 18 National University of Singapore Singapore
23 16 Australian National University Australia
24= 30 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France
24= 21 McGill University Canada
26 15 University of Texas at Austin US
27 25 Johns Hopkins University US
28 34 University College London UK
29 37 University of Toronto Canada
30 48 Edinburgh University UK
31 29 Kyoto University Japan
32 28 Pennsylvania University US
33 33 Monash University Australia
34 32 Ecole Polytech Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
35 43 Manchester University & Umist UK
36 31 University of Michigan US
37 26 University of California, Los Angeles US
38= 46 University of British Columbia Canada
38= 40 Sydney University Australia
40 36 University of New South Wales Australia
41 39 Hong Kong University Hong Kong
42 24 University of California, San Diego US
43 42 Hong Kong University Sci & Technol Hong Kong
44 38 Carnegie Mellon University US
45 47 Heidelberg University Germany
46 73 Northwestern University US
47 49 Queensland University Australia
48 50 Nanyang Technological University Singapore
49 91 Bristol University UK
50 41 Indian Institutes of Technology India
51 84 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
52 67 Auckland University New Zealand
53 78 Delft University of Technology Netherlands
54 75 Boston University US
55 99 Munich University Germany
56 79 New York University US
57 64 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands
58= 109 Washington University, St Louis US
58= 98 Amsterdam University Netherlands
58= 35 University of Illinois US
61 59 Purdue University US
62= 129 Helsinki University Finland
62= 61 Tsing Hua University China
64 130 Pennsylvania State University US
65 94 Vienna University Austria
66 63 Copenhagen University Denmark
67 68 Macquarie University Australia
68 45 Massachusetts University US
69 IEP Sciences Po, Paris France
70 83 Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands
71 61 Brown University US
72 195 Fudan University China
73= 96 King’s College London UK
73= 86 Rochester University US
73= 66 University Wisconsin-Madison US
76 Brussels Free University (French) Belgium
77= 93 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel
77= 80 Warwick University UK
79 92 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia
80= 96 University of Western Australia Australia
80= 56 Adelaide University Australia
82 55 RMIT University Australia
83 128 Durham University UK
84 Indian Institutes of Management India
85 Zurich University Switzerland
86 77 Vienna Technical University Austria
87 113 University of Technology, Sydney Australia
88= Geneva University Switzerland
88= 74 Washington University US
88= 57 Pierre and Marie Curie University France
88= Catholic University of Leuven (French) Belgium
92 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon France
93= 154 China University of Sci & Technology China
93= 118 Seoul National University South Korea
95= Catholic University of Leuven (Flemish) Belgium
95= 195 National Autonomous Univ of Mexico Mexico
97 170 Nottingham University UK
98 142 La Trobe University Australia
99 51 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
100 58 Sussex University UK
101= 112 Glasgow University UK
101= 76 Curtin University of Technology Australia
103= 133 Leeds University UK
103= 44 School of Oriental and African Studies UK
105= 118 Virginia University US
105= 95 Technical University Munich Germany
105= 69 Osaka University Japan
108 Wageningen University Netherlands
109= 137 York University UK
109= 88 Case Western Reserve University US
111 87 Trinity College, Dublin Ireland
112= 125 Humboldt University Berlin Germany
112= 100 Queen Mary, University of London UK
114= 156 Vanderbilt University US
114= 102 National Taiwan University Taiwan
114= 85 Gttingen University Germany
117 138 Dartmouth College US
118 Queensland University of Technology Australia
119 151 Liverpool University UK
120 120 Utrecht University Netherlands
121= Chulalongkorn University Thailand
121= 116 Michigan State University US
121= 71 Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne France
124 180 University of Southern California US
125= 162 La Sapienza University, Rome Italy
125= 105 Texas A&M University US
127= Basel University Switzerland
127= University of Newcastle Australia
129 167 Nagoya University Japan
130 103 Bath University UK
131 132 University Louis Pasteur Strasbourg France
132 177 Université de Montréal Canada
133= Lausanne University Switzerland
133= 134 Maryland University US
133= HEC Paris France
136= 153 Tohoku University Japan
136= 70 St Andrews University UK
138= 131 Leiden University Netherlands
138= 127 Aarhus University Denmark
138= 101 Oslo University Norway
141 173 Emory University US
142 157 Frankfurt University Germany
143= 160 Korea Advanced Inst of Sci and Tech South Korea
143= 150 Sheffield University UK
143= 126 Birmingham University UK
143= 117 North Carolina University US
147= Hiroshima University Japan
147= 65 Georgia Institute of Technology US
149 166 University of Alberta Canada
150= 192 Nanjing University China
150= St Gallen University Switzerland
150= 146 Rice University US
150= 82 University of Minnesota US
154= University of South Australia Australia
154= 145 Technical University of Denmark Denmark
154= 60 Technical University Berlin Germany
157= Hokkaido University Japan
157= 123 Maastricht University Netherlands
159= 186 Bologna University Italy
159= 165 Georgetown University US
159= 143 University of Waterloo Canada
159= 72 University of California, Santa Barbara US
163 107 Colorado University US
164 104 Tufts University US
165 164 Innsbruck University Austria
166= 161 Tasmania University Australia
166= 110 Chalmers University of Technology Sweden
168 179 Newcastle upon Tyne University UK
169= Shanghai Jiao Tong University China
169= Novosibirsk State University Russia
169= 89 Malaya University Malaysia
172= Free University Berlin Germany
172= Kobe University Japan
172= 184 Aachen RWTH Germany
175= 136 State Univ of New York, Stony Brook US
175= 90 Alabama University US
177 191 Nijmegen University Netherlands
178 198 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
179 Notre Dame University US
180= Toulouse 1 France
180= 171 Lund University Sweden
180= 140 Uppsala University Sweden
183 159 Madrid Autonomous University Spain
184= Korea University South Korea
184= 147 McMaster University Canada
186= Free University of Amsterdam Netherlands
186= 114 Otago University New Zealand
188= Tel Aviv University Israel
188= 108 Massey University New Zealand
190 Gothenburg University Sweden
191 University of Western Ontario Canada
192 Jawaharlal Nehru University India
193 Pittsburgh University US
194= 176 Helsinki University of Technology Finland
194= 158 Technion – Israel Inst of Technology Israel
196= São Paulo University Brazil
196= 122 Royal Institute of Technology Sweden
198 Showa University Japan
199= University of Florence Italy
199= George Washington University US
199= Wake Forest University US

Update: Apercebi-me agora que a terceira referência que dei não tem qualquer utilidade em termos de comparação das instituições propriamente ditas:

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